Don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about kids; I'm on about grown adults.
I know bullying does go on a lot in schools, workplaces, online, etc, and that it comes in many forms. It seems to me, though, that when referring to adults, the term 'bullying' is now overused.
I've seen people being accused of bullying (by others) while having perfectly civilised disagreements - purely because they disagree with a certain opinion. At work, one person is constantly late. When the manager had a quiet word with her about it she accused him of bullying her. The media constantly bangs on about how some poor creature in a band is being ''bullied'' by his/her bandmates, when it's usually nothing more than a simple disagreement.
It winds me right up. Bullying is horrible and needs to be stamped out... but how is it helpful to class minor arguments or exchanges of opinion as bullying? I think that sort of nonsense trivialises a very important issue.
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To think the word ''bullying'' is bandied about far to often nowadays?
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fanjofarrow · 03/11/2013 15:30
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